The Florida Air Museum, located on the grounds of the Lakeland Linder Airport and instrumental in the hosting of the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In each year, broke ground April 15 for a new public high school with an aviation theme, to be built where the Educational Forums are currently held during the fly-in. With a [...]

Dynon introduces the Skyview system and we talk with Nick Bogner about its current and future capabilities. The system is based on 10″ and 7″ screens, and prices start at $3,900.

Thursday, April 15, Day 3 of Sun ‘n Fun, was Lindbergh Foundation Day, dedicated to all of the green eco-technologies that the public foundation has been funding with its now famous Lindbergh Grants of $10,580. That amount represents the price of the Spirit of St. Louis, which Charles Lindbergh used to successfully fly across the [...]

Controversy over results of a recent General Aviation accident analysis generated considerable debate among pilots of technically advanced aircraft (TAA) of both the Experimental and certified types during this year’s Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In. The study, released in March 2010, suggests that pilots of TAA, those equipped with so-called glass cockpits (EFISes), including primary and [...]

Brad Hayden, the new Vice President of Marketing for Aspen Avionics, introduced the company’s newest orientation: horizontal. The Aspen Avionics backup display is actually seven instruments in one: attitude, altitude, airspeed, heading, vertical speed, GPS flight plan and GPS steering. The buttons and knobs have been reoriented for the horizontal configuration, and an emergency 30-minute [...]

We’ve tested it at KITPLANES (see Marc Cook’s story in the May issue), so we know it works. But now we can say that you, too, can purchase and get immediate delivery on TCW Technologies’ Integrated Back-up Battery System (IBBS). For $375 you get a nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery pack, battery charger and automatic back-up [...]

Diminutive, and touch-sensitive, the Gemini line of mini integrated autopilots and primary function displays are the next best things coming from TruTrak Flight Systems. The Gemini product line is designed specifically for Light Sport and Experimental aircraft that lack the panel space for the larger EFIS displays. The Gemini AP 780/880 systems have the familiar knobs [...]

Superb weather was not undone by an brief afternoon rainstorm in Lakeland today, as Sun ‘n Fun 2010 got underway. In our travels of the grounds a few things were evident. First, the starting-day crowd is definitely sparser than in years past, but, as was the case with Oshkosh last year, some of that impression [...]